The wife of Rambus CEO Harold Hughes has emerged as the latest message board star. According to a report, Nancy Hughes dished out 170 messages under the alias clarissamehitable on the InvestorVillage site, defending her husband's good name while knocking other members of Rambus's management.
Legal rag The Recorder reports that …

Bitching and moaning?

not unusual

In the world of print media, i.e. newspapers, and particular here in the UK where we still have partisan newspaper (cos we're backwards like that). It is not uncommon for newspaper to fill their letters pages with letters written by staff so that the paper's opinion is followed.

We even all fake winners in telephone contests over here too so a wife doing a bit of trolling on a message board sounds like loyalty to me, and makes a refreshing change from suing / being sued that those Americans love to do so much.

Culture of Cleanliness

The boss would *have* to be called Harold Hughes. I picture an odd, reclusive, haunted man who wears paper gloves and is frightened of germs. Which would actually be sensible if you were in charge of a silicon chip fabrication business, so that you could instil a culture of cleanliness.

I suppose the moral of this story is that you should never conduct an internal investigation into anything without first notifying the boss and his wife, just in case they have a guilty secret or two. I first learned this from the film "Capricorn One", but that was fiction; this story is fact.

"We Brits were bitching and moaning before America had even been discovered!"